Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change
By Andrew Kalaidjian. University of Virginia Press, 2025.
What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Spectacle Earth is a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments in relation to ecological crises and climate change. The book begins by tracing the long trajectory of environmental aesthetics and natural sciences that have led up to the Anthropocene. It then looks at lessons ...